King Kong vs. Godzilla - 4K Japanese Cut Restoration

Last July, Toho simulcast their fully 35mm sourced 4K restoration of the uncut 1962 version of King Kong vs. Godzilla in theaters and on the Japanese Movie Specialty Channel, a marked and long overdue improvement over their ugly Blu-Ray version. No rips have surfaced and a foreseeable home video version has remained unannounced thus far.

Oddly if I load the file into virtualdubfiltermod I can hear the audio. Same when using Kodi as the media player. VLC and MPC will not play the audio properly once the movie begins. I’m assuming its because the audio switches from aac 2.0 to dolby 5.1 in the middle of the TS file.

Also this video is INTERLACED (and anamorphic?) 1440x1080i, looks like it “stretches” to 1920, which is so strange.

Don’t get me wrong, I am very grateful for this file (a dream come true), just assuming this is the way it was broadcast. This is the best the film has ever looked (I own the official Japanese Blu-Ray Toho put out too), definitely original film elements were found and re-inserted flawlessly.

With a glorious thanks to Akaiii, I have made a decent x264 encode of this and distributed it to MySpleen and Cinemageddon. I have synced all available audio mixes (plus isolated score) and a legitimate subtitle translation to create the definitive version of this marvelous film in the English-speaking world. I hope that this attempt is proliferated for years to come until the film is given a proper release in the aforementioned English-speaking world.

With a glorious thanks to Akaiii, I have made a decent x264 encode of this and distributed it to MySpleen and Cinemageddon. I have synced all available audio mixes (plus isolated score) and a legitimate subtitle translation to create the definitive version of this marvelous film in the English-speaking world. I hope that this attempt is proliferated for years to come until the film is given a proper release in the aforementioned English-speaking world.

With a glorious thanks to Akaiii, I have made a decent x264 encode of this and distributed it to MySpleen and Cinemageddon. I have synced all available audio mixes (plus isolated score) and a legitimate subtitle translation to create the definitive version of this marvelous film in the English-speaking world. I hope that this attempt is proliferated for years to come until the film is given a proper release in the aforementioned English-speaking world.

With a glorious thanks to Akaiii, I have made a decent x264 encode of this and distributed it to MySpleen and Cinemageddon. I have synced all available audio mixes (plus isolated score) and a legitimate subtitle translation to create the definitive version of this marvelous film in the English-speaking world. I hope that this attempt is proliferated for years to come until the film is given a proper release in the aforementioned English-speaking world.

Beautiful! Finally seeing the new restoration with the original 4-channel audio is a dream come true!

With a glorious thanks to Akaiii, I have made a decent x264 encode of this and distributed it to MySpleen and Cinemageddon. I have synced all available audio mixes (plus isolated score) and a legitimate subtitle translation to create the definitive version of this marvelous film in the English-speaking world. I hope that this attempt is proliferated for years to come until the film is given a proper release in the aforementioned English-speaking world.

And for people who doesn’t have both MySpleen and Cinemageddon accounts (since Signups are closed since a long time for both of them) is there another way to see it?